off-the-cuff

Apparently off the cuff, he recently said he was a citizen like any other and could take off his uniform to stand for election.

You may come to see this by an off-the-cuff comment, quite by accident.

Let's see if I can name a few off the cuff or without any preparation . People wear pants to cover the lower part of their bodies .

His aristocratic demeanour and habit of making off-the-cuff remarks contribute both to his appeal and his potential liability.

In a press interview, John Lennon made a cynical off-the-cuff remark that the Beatlemania had made his band "more popular than Jesus now" .

Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff (n. ) Remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner.

I said a few words off the cuff.

Faced with all this my writing today is brief and off-the-cuff.

In a case like this, off-the-cuff advice is useless.

It's a trick used by the Ancient Greeks and how Cicero managed to reel off extraordinarily complicated speeches off the cuff.

Initially, Mandela was admonished by the ANC executive for his off-the-cuff, unapproved statement, but not for long.

Of course, the more knowledge you have the subject to be discussed, the easier it will be to speak about it off the cuff.

Now I regularly stand up and speak off the cuff as a participant in Table Topics.

But armed with these tools, that quick, off-the-cuff answer to a question is a step closer.

Ideally, if you can establish a culture of disciplined estimation, you can eliminate the requests for off-the-cuff estimates.

I could give an opinion off the cuff, but I'd rather think about it.

"Off the cuff" also means without preparation or planning, but is more often used to refer to a performance, such as a speech or a song.

Although I could probably speak off the cuff for two hours, I always work from a script.

This isn't the kind of question that one can answer off the cuff. Can I answer it later? I need to look it up.

I thought I'd just share some off-the-cuff thoughts about code commenting.

While the message was still about cleaning and erasing programs or memories, his approach was even more relaxed and off-the-cuff .

He had to speak off the cuff because he forgot to bring his prepared speech.

As a result, key decisions tend to be taken off the cuff and outside the institutions of government.

Tonight I want to speak from the heart. I'm going to speak off the cuff.

This weekend, feel free to speak off the cuff, act impulsively and have a terrific time.

I won't prepare a speech: I'll talk off the cuff.

I have heard this off the cuff from more than one public speaking trainer .

e. g. This is not the kind of question that one can answer off the cuff.

Yes, he speaks that way off the cuff.

m not good at speaking off the cuff.

This isn't the kind of question that one can answer off the cuff.

I'm good off the cuff already.

I have to give a speech off the cuff.

REMEMBER: These skill stats are not final and accompanying descriptions are off-the-cuff explanations;